boot lid

Keep meaning to ask this but always forget, what is that point of being able to open your boot lid with the key? I'd understand if you could open it using the key and then the boot opens up, but it doesn't. I always thought the point of it was if you coming back with, say, bags of shopping, hit the button and the boot opens. I know you can open the boot without unlocking the whole car, but is their a point to that too because I really don't think someone would nick anything from a persons car whilst their stood next to it!

I just don't see a benefit of being able to unlock the boot, then still have to lift up the boot lid, either its my gas struts have gone or its just a silly idea!

I also like being able to unlock the boot with the key's middle button.
I especially like it that when you close the boot it locks again automatically.
Although I'll probably only like this auto locking feature until the arrival of the day that I open the boot, place my keys in the boot so I can do what i'm doing, then close the boot, it auto locks, and then I realise my keys are still in the boot!!

You can measure the struts already on the car then you can work out which ones to get (not necessarily on that page). The length of travel is length D. These ones can be adjusted from 5-40KG! That's a huge variation and I would be amazed if the right setting doesn't fall between 10 and 80KG total.

Connecting it to the car might not be so easy.

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that's what I thought. it'd be very hard to close it surely. good times when you impress people by opening it with the key. bad times when you have to drive around with your boot open as you can't close it.

I also like being able to unlock the boot with the key's middle button.
I especially like it that when you close the boot it locks again automatically.
Although I'll probably only like this auto locking feature until the arrival of the day that I open the boot, place my keys in the boot so I can do what i'm doing, then close the boot, it auto locks, and then I realise my keys are still in the boot!!

From that day on I will hate the auto locking feature!!

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Been there and done that one LOL. When I was changing the boot light for an led, shut the boot and went to open it again not realising the keys were on the inside, luckily for once i actually new where the spare was. On the note about gas struts it would be nice if they were like the Merc ones. Open the boot and the whole thing springs open, not that you can compare them as the Merc has a small lightweight boot lid and the Audi has a bloody heavy whole back end of the car lid!!

The cars I've seen that can actually do this on the button (open & close) have a motor & gear system in them, Bentley Flying Spur, BMW 7 Series etc. I wouldn't have thought it would be achievable with gas struts because you still have to overcome the inertia of the bootlid, and then trying to actually close it with much stiffer struts would be harder, particularly if you had hands full of luggage.

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